The Table (2018, co-authorship with Anya U.)
The table is a metaphor of the inevitable cyclicity. The process of inner feel, conveyed through the consumption of the owns excessive impotence. Indifferent presence in a common ceremonial action. Metonymic transfer of personal to general and vice versa.
Lenin. Collected Works (2018)
Three incomplete collected works of Lenin (112 volumes) Photography, digital print, 67x100 cm
The installation “Lenin. Collected works” has been photographed in the field in Moscow region. The work contains three not complete collected works of Lenin (112 volumes) and dedicated to the issue of impossibility to recognize historical memory as your own. Despite evident and visible accessibility of information about the historical epoch or a person, the events remain for the reader closed and alien systems. The facts and names only outline the objects, but don‘t fill it with comprehensive meaning. This illusion of the openness gives only one possibility to change the distance from which we look to the object. The distance variation turns to be the optical game that provides nothing, but the feeling of approximation.
Lacunas (2017)
Lacunas is photography series shot in a field in Moscow region. It documents the staged performance in the moment of absence of the “real” spectator. An attempt to reveal the role of the photography - that it is more than an evidence that certifies the fact of performance. It becomes the only possible witness. Photographs are shot with exposure correction of -2-3 steps. The ratio of the cube and the blank black space dimensions is ever changing: the size of the cube remains the same while the sizes of the prints differ.
Photography, digital print
Safe places (2020-2022)
The project represents the only possible remaining form of safety that seems to be still available - constant searching for places that wouldn't allow a men to enter. When maintaining and increasing a social distance became the primary daily task and provides the illusion of safety.
Still life (2020)
In this work the author uses photography as an occasion for the image, not as an image per se. The work comprises of five photographies of the flower compositions on the vases accompanied with a brie text description. The image and the text altogether refer to culturally determined notions of the Still Life and to an individual experience of a viewer. An interaction of the viewer, a photography and a text become a necessary condition for the image to appear.
5 photographies, digital print, 88x110 cm
10 pale pink peonies in the green vase Main colors of the composition: pale pink, light-green, green
Composition of dried flowers ‘Coral cloud’ in the cylindric vase of two colors (beige-white) Main colors of the composition: white, yellow, pink
25 colorful stems, comprising of alstromeria, rose, freesia, snapdragon and craspedum in light gray ceramic vase Main colors of the composition: red, deep blue, light gray
The magnificent bunch of peonies with 3 white, 4 pink peonies and decorative bow and the transparent glass vase Main colors of the composition: pink, pale pink, white
The bouquet of small bushy daises in dark green faience vase Main colors of the composition: green, white